About jaredpar's WebLog

I'm a developer on a Microsoft incubation project working on programing languages and parallel computing. Previously I spent 4 years on the Visual Studio Languages team in the Compiler, Debugger and IDE spaces. This blog is my way of sharing my experiences coding and scripting in a variety of languages (F#, C#, C++, VB.Net, ...) and environments. You can also follow me on twitter: @jaredpar

ComboBox has a lot of helpful properties that allow you to get access to items selected by the Control. The problem is knowing which one is best in which scenario. The documentation is not 100% clear on what the values will be in various situtations....

I've been an avid fan of running as a limited user account (LUA) for almost all of my computing career. It's in large part a holdover from my *NIX days but it's an important practice for Windows as well. I'm very excited about this being the default for...